Baby's First Christmas

Olivia's First Christmas!

There are going to be a lot of first this year..... obviously. And some of the big ones are holidays. Travel or stay home? What traditions to start? Do we need to start traditions in these first couple of years when she won't remember?

This year we decided to stay home and just have time with the three of us. Olivia has not been sick yet (knock on wood) so we wanted to keep her away from people, we wanted some quiet family time as Olivia does not do will with big groups of people, and being an introvert, when I get time off of work I prefer to just recoup at home.

It was wonderful :-) We did not wake up until almost 9 am and spent the day opening gifts and playing with them, Skyping with family, eating breakfast food, and taking family naps (so important!). 

Thank you to everyone who sent Olivia gifts! It would take way too long to go through them all but know that we are very grateful to have such loving family and friends. 

She was not sure how to feel about the frog toy I bought her :)

Knocked out from all the excitement!

 We hope that you all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas! <3

Olivia has not rolled over again since the weekend (I feel like she is teasing me!) but she is blowing bubbles with her mouth: 

These last couple of days we tried to stay out of the crowds and to just stay home. I think we did a pretty good job this year of having everything done in advance.

Making a Snow Angel in her blanket!

I caught her playing with her feet at nap time

TOES!

 I know I know... wishful thinking with this one. I stood her up, snapped a blurry picture, and then she slumped over. But it will be so cute WHEN she CAN stand!

Playing with mom's yoga ball

Thank you grandma Mona for the overalls! 

What do you do when you don't have a fire place??? You search "fire place" on Netflix and TA DA! A fire place with the sounds included and background music. Next year if we still don't have a fire place, I'm going to buy of kids red play time bricks and build a fire place around my TV. HAHA! IT will be wonderful :D

Mike took today off and is taking tomorrow off. Unfortunately I have to do some work tomorrow as I did not take some time off. We are both feeling like tomorrow should be Football Sunday though!

I will say that I am very disappointed that Olivia did not get a white Christmas for her first Christmas. People kept telling me that it is fine because she won't remember. And to be honest, I would probably be telling them the same thing last year before I had Olivia. Yes, she will not remember, but I WILL! We are supposed to get snow this weekend though so I will have to dress her up very warm to go outside to take "Christmas" pictures in the snow. She won't know :D 

At some point this weekend I am hoping for us to take Olivia out to look at some Christmas lights. There are a few places around town that have some great light set ups. Supposedly there is a road up on the South Hill that they call Candy Cane Lane in the winter time. I have to find it! She does love sparkly things so I can't wait to see the look on her face :D

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL! <3